Romney only leading Georgia by 8. Only 8.

[UrbScotty]

Too close for Romney's comfort?

Obama's almost certainly not going to win Georgia, but if he's only trailing by single digits, then he's not doing too bad!

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/romney-tops-obama-in-georgia-as-economy-dominates-/nScjq/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Make Rmoney spend all his money

Make him defend every bit of turf

[jody]

3. Be careful with your logic, Obama's lead 5% or less in FL, OH, PA with 67 electors. nt

[C_U_L8R]

4. True

I just want our team to keep that guy on the defense.

[jody]

6. Unlike team sports, politics forces candidates to play offense and defense simultaneously. nt

[hrmjustin]

2. Mccain won GA by 5% so 8% is not that much of an improvement for Romney.

[bigdarryl]

5. This is a silly post a 8 point lead is a lot

[LisaL]

9. Sure is.

[UrbScotty]

10. Not for Republicans in Georgia. Bush won there by 16 points. Romney is underperforming.

[Arugula Latte]

13. Not for Georgia, though, is the point.

[WI_DEM]

7. Mr. Gallup if Obama were behind by 7 nationally wouldn't Romney be leading

by 20 points in GA?

[Politicub]

8. Really cool. Neither campaign is competing here, so it's especially intereting.

Early voting has started. I went on the first day, and there was a pretty long line. I'm in the metro which skews more liberal.

While its highly unlikely for Obama to make a dent in GA, the local races matter a great deal. I hope he has coattails.

And a big popular vote is important, too.

[JiminyJominy]

11. With 3 Weeks To Go...

It really would not be wise to try and expand the electoral map into a state like GA. Now, if several reputable polls come outta there in the next 3-4 days that show us within 3-4....thats a different story.

As of right now we need to break this down into 3 tiers of Time/Money spent.

Tier One: Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, NH

Tier Two: VA, and CO

Tier Three: NV, NC, Florida


The thinking here is that our "Electoral Firewall" that keeps getting talked about really is OH, WI, and Iowa (assuming we get NH). We get those states its over , we win.

Tier 2 are still very winnable and with Tier 2 money being spent there we still have a 50/50 shot of pulling one of those states out.

Tier 3 starts with Nevada because I simply believe we have Nevada locked up and they are not going Red. So while some money needs to be spent there to hold, we can get a little more conservative (dare I use that word here?!) there. NC and Florida until I see further good polls for us get some time and money but we might need to start coming to some realizations here pretty soon. But, that said I wanna see more polling numbers there before I make that decision.

[TroyD]

12. Romney is also only ahead in Montana by 8

According to Rasmussen's new poll this week:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/montana/election_2012_montana_president

That's an improvement from John McCain's score in 2008, but well below the numbers that Bush received in 2004.

[Tim4319]

14. I voted on Tuesday in GA.

I live in Cobb county. I voted early and the wait time wa 45 minutes. By the time I got in to vote the wait time was 1 1/2 hours. But, I had heard that the wait time on the Monday was 3 hours. It would be nice to see Barack win GA.

[JiminyJominy]

15. Tim

By Your sense, is there any realistic chance of us catching Romney there?

If you were running O's campaign, would you invest heavily into trying to pick up the win here?